About the artisan

☩ Florent giraud ☩

Tarotgraphe has been created in 2023 by a marseille artisan named Florent GIRAUD.

BIOGRAPHY

FLORENT GIRAUD

Drawn from a very young age to theological and existential questions, I spent much of my life in search of a form of Western spirituality that has largely been forgotten today.

It was along this path that I discovered the Marseille Tarot in 2013, an encounter that immediately fascinated me. This meeting with such an enigmatic and captivating work would go on to profoundly transform my life, both personally and professionally.

After nearly ten years spent studying and practicing the meanings, symbols, and myths that make up the Marseille Tarot, I chose in 2021 to become a professional tarologist (Le Bateleur Tarologie 2021–2023).

The Marseille Tarot gradually became an essential tool on my spiritual path. Acting as a compass, it allows my soul to experience the Divine and to be transformed by its grace.

But my passion for the Marseille Tarot did not stop there. In 2023, it led me to create the company Tarotgraphe, dedicated to restoring and producing historical Marseille Tarot decks using the traditional craft methods of Provençal card makers from the 17th and 18th centuries. As I studied Art History for three years, my skills were very helpful in this new adventure.

Alongside my professional work, my deep desire to understand the true meaning of the Marseille Tarot led me to immerse myself in Neoplatonic and Hermetic philosophy, Catholic and Kabbalistic theology, as well as the study of astrology and alchemy.

These studies marked a major turning point in my spiritual journey, as they led me to embrace a worldview both visible and invisible shared by our ancestors.

Today, I wish to offer authentic marseille tarot crafted according to the tradition of my region and I would like to share the fruits of my spiritual discoveries with anyone who feels called to them.

Why I created “Tarotgraphe”

In february 2023, I was seeking to acquire the Claude Valentin & Guillaume Dubesset Marseille tarot but it had never been published again since the XVIIth century.

Particularly fond of the Tarots of Marseille type 1, Tarotgraphe is specialized in the restoration and marketing of this type of tarot.

If the Tarots of Marseille type 2 are today marketed en masse, the offers concerning the Tarots of Marseille type 1 are much rarer and come to lack.

That is why I decided to compensate for this deficiency by giving birth to Tarotgraphe.”